Ancient Anatolia Day
Ancient Anatolia Network
Ancient Anatolia Day
A fun day of study on Ancient Anatolia
Online and in person, Wolfson College, Linton Rd, Oxford OX2 6UD
Monday 17 June 2024, 9.15am – 6.30pm
Free but registration is required.
Registration
The event will be free and will include a lunch and two coffee breaks, but in order to enable us to welcome as many participants as possible, we would like to encourage participants to make a small donation (for example, £15) if they feel able to. In order to make a donation, follow the link and enter the amount you wish to donate into the Amount £ box before checkout.
To register for in-person attendance, click here.
The event will be livestreamed, the only exception being the taster lessons in the morning.
To register for online attendance, click here.
Join us for a fun day of study on Ancient Anatolia! This event is open to everyone, especially to those who would like to know more about Ancient Anatolia, it languages and its cultures.
The Ancient Anatolia Network is pleased to host an Ancient Anatolia Day on Monday 17 June, at Wolfson College. This day celebrates the breadth of the field of Anatolian Studies, as well as the fascinating connections with other areas of study of the ancient world. With introductory classes and workshops, there will be opportunities for participants to take lessons in subjects such as Hieroglyphic Luwian; cuneiform and alphabetic Anatolian scripts; Anatolian Archaeology and philology; and topics in ancient Anatolian history and society. Also, participants will have the unique chance to hear Hittite poetry and music performed live!
Programme
9.15 – 9.45 Coffee and registration
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome/Programme overview (Michele Bianconi, Philomen Probert, Christoph Bachhuber)
10.00 – 10.45 Taster session 1
Tablet-making workshop (Christie Carr and Gustavo Pedroso, Oxford)
Anatolian alphabets: an interactive crash course (Fiona Phillips, Oxford)
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.45 Taster session 2
Hieroglyphic Luwian (Annick Payne, Venice)
Anatolian Archaeology (Christoph Bachhuber, Oxford, and Michele Massa, Bilkent)
11.45 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 12.30 “The Hittites: Old and New Discoveries from an Anatolian Empire”
Meltem Doğan Alparslan (Istanbul)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.15 “Discovery Roundtable: Türkmen-Karahöyük and its Implications”
Theo van den Hout (Chicago)
Michele Massa (Bilkent)
Marco Santini (Oxford)
Mark Weeden (UCL)
Chaired by Naoise MacSweeney (Wien)
Introduced by Christoph Bachhuber
15.15 – 16.00 “In the workshop of the decipherer”
A conversation between Ignasi Adiego (Barcelona) & Ilya Yakubovich (Marburg)
Introduced by Philomen Probert
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.00 “Fifty Years in Anatolian Studies”
H. Craig Melchert (UCLA)
Introduced by Michele Bianconi
17.00 – 18.00 “eḫu išḫamai: Hittite in music”
Rita Francia (Rome) and Francesco Landucci (Archeologia Sonora Sperimentale)
18.00 Conclusive remarks
18.15 Drinks reception
The Ancient Anatolia Day will be immediately followed by the first Anatolian Languages and Linguistics Summer School
This event is possible thanks to the kind support of TORCH, the Diebold Fund, the Ancient World Research Cluster and the Assyriology Fund at Wolfson College, the Craven Fund at the Faculty of Classics, and the Philological Society.
